I’m not suspicious of success, I’m suspicious of the people who want to attach themselves because of your success.
TYLER PERRYSeeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
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I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
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Oprah is very, very, very special to me. She’s an amazing woman.
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Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.
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Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.
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If you’ve ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you’ll understand that the underlying theme of everything I’ve done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
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I think there’s something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think – you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
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I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it’s on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I’m supposed to write about.
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I feel like I express myself, as an actor. Whatever the character is put in front of me, I try to bring truth to it, whichever way it lands. I try to bring as much truth to it and make it as believable as I can. I think that’s the job of an actor.
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The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
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What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can’t wrap my brain around that one.
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There’s a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can’t meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
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A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.
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We don’t have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.
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Developing a good work ethic is a key [to success]. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
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